Immediately, “Contagion” establishes a common premise of thriller stories, a badly planned venture into an isolated territory with a nefarious history. Just as they are preparing to blast off into space, their forewoman Dylan Lowe decides that a select group from the base will respond to a mysterious distress call in a faraway solar system rather than returning to their home system, the Trios. The story follows the evacuation of a space base crew, including research intern Althea Sadik, on the frigid ice planet Soter after a blizzard threatens to bury their outpost. Unfortunately, Bowman would have done well to wait until COVID made its appearance so she could take notes because our worldwide pandemic is quite frankly more creative than the infection Bowman attempted to resurrect.īowman’s sci-fi thriller begins in terrific form, initially earning every page turn. The novel “Contagion” by Erin Bowman came out in 2018, just before the era of COVID-19.
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